Soft state
The consistently increasing incidents of violent and mindless ‘hooliganism’ being orchestrated by various self-styled groups and outfits of socio-cultural, religious and political hues have raised a serious question on the credibility of our legal system and law enforcement machinery. In the name of protecting the pristineness of In... Read Full Article

RISING INTOLERANCE AND DEMOCRATIC INDIA
The consistently increasing incidents of violent and mindless ‘hooliganism’ being orchestrated by various self- styled groups and outfits of socio-cultural, religious and political ‘hues’ have raised a serious question on the credibility of our ‘legal system’ and law enforcement machinery. In the... Read Full Article

Real Estate Act
The enforcement of Real estate ( Regulation and Development) Act could hardly have come a day sooner given the precarious state of affairs. It is secret to none as to how the unholy nexus of political leadership, bureaucracy, and all mighty builders have kept on exploiting people to their collective aggrandizement of interests. The... Read Full Article

Rajasthan Government Ordinance
The Rajasthan Government's ordinance barring investigation against public servants without sanction from competent authority is grossly invasive of our basic legal and fundamental rights. Basically, it suffers from the lack of balancing between the imperatives of insulating public servants against false, vexatious an... Read Full Article

POLITICS OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Will success sustain the grim realities of politics?
- Sajjan Singh
The ‘landslide’ victory of BSP in the Assembly polls seems to have extended a new direction to the political winds in UP which to a great extent will chart the course of politics at the center as well, more immediately the Presidential elec... Read Full Article

Pass and fail system
Our education system badly needs a structural overhauling to stop its gradual degeneration into an unending series of unproductive and socially divisive competition of victory and defeat with least of concern for the quality of life. Marks obtained in the Examination is treated as the conclusive statement on the standard and p... Read Full Article